One of the larger rounds of technical issues in the 2022 NFL season thus far has been with DirecTV out-of-market service NFL Sunday Ticket. Last week, many people noted issues with the service both ahead of and during games. This then happened again during Week 2’s early games, with long outages of 15 minutes and much more for many. Here are some of the many people who noted that:
Sunday Ticket's DirecTV streaming is completely down. Started dying about an hour ago and the rest of the streams gave up over about the next 20 minutes.
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 18, 2022
Direct TV headquarters right now pic.twitter.com/N6WJcSfwfw
— Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (@LeBatardShow) September 18, 2022
If your Sunday Ticket is down, it's not just you.
— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) September 18, 2022
America vs. NFL Sunday Ticket. pic.twitter.com/MXCchLsI0k
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) September 18, 2022
sunday ticket subscribers – when do we start demanding our money back
— Jessica Smetana (@jessica_smetana) September 18, 2022
The Sunday Ticket stream being down is just outrageous. We only need this to work 18 days a year. Come on, man.
— nick wright (@getnickwright) September 18, 2022
Sunday Ticket counting their money while none of us can watch the games. pic.twitter.com/3Cclg1UUlQ
— Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) September 18, 2022
This is widely expected to be DirecTV’s final season with the NFL Sunday Ticket package. No winner of the package for the 2023 season and beyond has yet been announced, but several streaming services in particular have been mentioned as options. But the service, which costs a base rate of $293.94 per season without promos, has not been working out all that great for many this week. And that may add even more to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s discussion in July about the package likely heading to a streaming service:
“I clearly believe we’ll be moving to a streaming service. I think that’s best for consumers at this stage.”
Streaming services have run into some of their own technical issues many times, with last week also seeing issues for NFL+ subscribers and those consuming games on virtual MVPDs Sling TV and YouTube TV. But last week and this week certainly showed issues for those accessing the current Sunday Ticket package through DirecTV.
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